Author: Henri Delporte
Publisher: Editions A&J Picard
ISBN:
Category : Art, Prehistoric
Languages : fr
Pages : 296

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Author: R. Dale Guthrie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226311265
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Claudine Cohen
Publisher: Herscher
ISBN:
Category : Art, Prehistoric
Languages : fr
Pages : 204

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Nourrie des recherches des archéologues et des débats des préhistoriens, cette étude cherche à prendre un certain recul par rapport aux représentations, descriptions et théories qui ont prévalu depuis un siècle et demi sur la femme aux temps préhistoriques. Interroge l'histoire des idées et les preuves laissées par l'art pour tenter de dessiner une image plus vraie de notre lointaine ancêtre.

Author: Günter Berghaus
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313059578
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Following the discovery of Franco-Caribbean cave art in the nineteenth century, standard interpretations of these works usually revolved around hunting, magic, and fertility cults. Orthodox positions such as these have weighed heavily on later generations of art historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, even those whose views dissented from those of their predecessors. In the last few decades, however, new approaches to cave art, often based on discoveries made in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and the Arctic region, have produced new insights into possible meanings and functions of prehistoric paintings and sculptures. This new collection of essays explores these insights, gathering the observations of eight experts from a variety of disciplines, and examining some of the social and spiritual functions of a variety of artistic genres ranging from 40,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C. These insights, which derive from evolutionary biology, feminist scholarship, ritual studies, and new modes of anthropology, argue collectively that prehistoric art was a culture-specific form of communication that should be interpreted in the social context of early hunger-gatherer societies and should not be measured with the criteria and paradigms of modern art. Essential reading for anyone interested in prehistoric art or its cultural implications, this volume represents a bold step forward in the research and analysis of the very first artists.

Author: Lori Hager
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134840101
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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This volume, the first of it's kind, examines the role of women paleontologists and archaeologists in a field traditionally dominated by men. Women researchers in this field, have questioned many of the assumptions and developmental scenarios advanced by male scientists. As a result of such efforts, women have forged a more central role in models of human development and have radically altered the way in which human evolution is perceived. This history of the feminist critique of science, is of profound significance and will be of interest to all those who work in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, and human biology.

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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738185509
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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Author: Timothy Insoll
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191663093
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 961

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Figurines dating from prehistory have been found across the world but have never before been considered globally. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first book to offer a comparative survey of this kind, bringing together approaches from across the landscape of contemporary research into a definitive resource in the field. The volume is comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible, with dedicated and fully illustrated chapters covering figurines from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia and the Pacific laid out by geographical location and written by the foremost scholars in figurine studies; wherever prehistoric figurines are found they have been expertly described and examined in relation to their subject matter, form, function, context, chronology, meaning, and interpretation. Specific themes that are discussed by contributors include, for example, theories of figurine interpretation, meaning in processes and contexts of figurine production, use, destruction and disposal, and the cognitive and social implications of representation. Chronologically, the coverage ranges from the Middle Palaeolithic through to areas and periods where an absence of historical sources renders figurines 'prehistoric' even though they might have been produced in the mid-2nd millennium AD, as in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The result is a synthesis of invaluable insights into past thinking on the human body, gender, identity, and how the figurines might have been used, either practically, ritually, or even playfully.

Author: Jean Guilaine
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738157785
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 588

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Ce beau livre unique présente une très riche iconographie en couleurs sur les femmes au temps du Néolithique. Deux cents illustrations de figurines, stèles, statues et d’art rupestre révèlent la façon dont les premières sociétés rurales « voyaient » la femme. Dans un texte passionnant, Jean Guilaine montre comment ces représentations étonnantes par leur diversité culturelle permettent de mieux cerner le rôle des femmes au Néolithique. Alors que les femmes sont longtemps demeurées « invisibles » dans les récits historiques, ce livre dédié à Françoise Héritier leur redonne toute leur place dans la trajectoire de l’humanité et pose les fondements d’une histoire des femmes pour cette période capitale de transition de la Préhistoire à l’Histoire. Les femmes d’hier nous éclairent sur les femmes d’aujourd’hui. Jean Guilaine a été directeur de recherche au CNRS, directeur d’études à l’EHESS, puis professeur d’archéologie au Collège de France (chaire des « Civilisations de l’Europe au Néolithique et à l’âge du Bronze »). Membre de l’Institut de France et président d’honneur de la Société préhistorique française, grand prix de l’Archéologie du ministère de la Culture (1985), il est docteur honoris causa des universités de Barcelone et de Lisbonne. Il est l’auteur, aux éditions Odile Jacob, de La Seconde Naissance de l’homme, Paul Tournal, fondateur de la préhistoire (avec Chantal Alibert), des Chemins de la protohistoire et de Mémoires d’un protohistorien. La traversée des âges.

Author: Michael R. Kauth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136455191
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Expand your knowledge—with theories and concepts that may challenge your assumptions about sexual attraction Human sexuality can be better understood by knowing how sexual psychologies may have evolved throughout the ages. Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality presents a detailed examination of human sexuality, the assumptions about concepts and terms pertaining to sexuality, and the latest theories on the evolution of human sexual attraction. Leading experts explore various aspects of evolutionary theory, with a focus on Evolutionary Psychology (EP). Discussions include mate preferences, mating behavior, mate signaling, pheromones, and same-sex attraction. This comprehensive source also presents three groundbreaking theories of the evolution of same-sex attraction. Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality takes current assumptions about human sexuality, explains each in turn, and then offers fresh perspectives on conventional concepts of sexual orientation. This extensive resource provides ample evidence to argue that researchers should investigate sexual relationships based on a person’s characteristics such as personal traits, complementary roles/status, sexual acts, or situational context rather than simply the sex of the partner. The book provides a discussion of evolutionary theory, evolution of human sexual culture, evolution of sexual pleasure, and detailed analysis of assumptions about sexual orientation. The text is carefully referenced. Some of the topics explored by Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality include: links to non-human primate sexual behaviors and the emergence of human (sexual) nature EP research on consensual adult human sexual behaviors studies of evolved male and female mating strategies, mate preferences, and sexual psychologies a brief history of the theory of evolution ancient culture, archeology, and an overview of premodern human sexuality evolutionary history of sexual pleasure human mating strategies development of mate preferences sexual signals, such as distinctive physical features, material wealth, etc. theories of the evolution of same-sex sexual attraction and behavior Primatologist Paul Vasey’s observations of female Japanese macaques and their female-female sexual encounters—with an examination of human male-male behavior evolutionary history of female-female affectional bonding with a new theory on the behavior evolutionary history of male-male sexual behavior—with intriguing thoughts on why it happened evolutionary history of pheromones as chemical messengers much more Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality is an important, thought-provoking resource perfect for evolutionary psychologists, sexologists, educators, researchers, scholars, and graduate students.

Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231157207
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Kristeva (Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection) offers an extended consideration of artistic figurations of the severed head, the organizing theme to an exhibition she coordinated at the Louvre in 1998. Though she follows a single historical trajectory, moving from Paleolithic skull cults to antique Greek sculpture to the Surrealist drawings, Kristeva eschews the disciplinary constraints of art history, instead employing psychoanalysis to explore the intertwined problems of representation and mortality posed by the severed head. For Kristeva, the capacity to figure the life of the mind first requires a confrontation with this horrific object that stands at the boundary between life and death, registering not only the loss of corporeal form but also subjective interiority. Though this book does not engage with recent images of decapitation, it is not without contemporary political-cultural import; for Kristeva, these cruel artistic figurations offer us the capacity to contemplate the sacred within a technology-driven contemporary visual culture. Verdict While a challenging text, this beautifully written and richly layered meditation on mortality and representation will undoubtedly appeal to those readers interested in semiotic and psychoanalytically informed readings of art.-Jonathan Patkowski, CUNY Graduate Ctr.(c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.